'Hectic and overwhelming' global reaction

"I didn't know about the wink and the snigger until people rang me up and told me, and I didn't see it until last night when I saw the news," Gloria said on Thursday.

She said while she still has not been able to get online to see the global reaction, she has been inundated with requests from the media.

"Different radio stations, newspapers and television ... I've had heaps calling 774 wanting me to talk, but I've narrowed it down to the ABC in Melbourne and The Age," she said.

He never answered my question... but I didn't really expect him to.

Gloria

"It's been pretty hectic and overwhelming anyway, there's no way I could've dealt with all the media who wanted to talk to me. I think it's just out of control now, it's ridiculous."

Since the call went to air her real name has been made public, and she said she now fears for her safety as her sex line clients could find out where she lives.

The pensioner, who suffers from emphysema and a heart condition, said she has been working for the sex line for almost four years, after she lost a long-term part-time cleaning job when the agency she worked for failed to have its contract renewed.

'No-one gets rich' working on sex lines

She said she found the sex line job through a local newspaper advertisement and while she is not ashamed of the work, she said it does not pay well.

"Last fortnight I made $84," she said.

"The most I've ever made in a fortnight was around $250 but that's unusual.

"You only get paid 50c a minute while you're actually on a call. No-one gets rich on it."

On Wednesday she asked the Prime Minister how he would feel if his grandmother had to work for a sex line.

"He never answered my question... but I didn't really expect him to. I just wanted to put him on the spot," she said.

Yesterday was like insanity, and today's been mad too.

Gloria

But she said she has been overwhelmed by the hysteria that the exchange has caused.

"Yesterday was like insanity, and today's been pretty mad too, I've had to cancel stuff I had planned," she said.

"I've heard people are ringing up radio stations saying I don't exist, I'm a Labor stooge, that I should go and bake cakes and sell them instead of working on a sex line.

"If I had been able to speak to Julia Gillard when she ripped money off supporting parents benefit, I would have got stuck into her just as loudly and just as angrily."